Adam Driver: intense and magnetic

Thanks to its broad record, current cinema has had unforgettable moments with its films.Today, this former Marine is considered one of the most versatile in the industry.

By Yenny Nun.Photos: Getty images.

It would seem that Adam Driver has worked more during the pandemic than before her.In 2021, festival passed at Festival: Cannes, Venice and Toronto and dozens of red carpets.It also premiered three films that have been acclaimed by the public and the criticism.He was in the musical Annette, where he made Marion Cotillard's partner and was directed by the eccentric Leos Carax.Then he was in the last duel, a blockbuster about a tragic love triangle set in the Middle Ages, a film directed by Ridley Scott, where Driver faces a duel to death with the character embodied by Matt Damon.And again Ridley Scott was in charge of directing him and Lady Gaga- in the house of Gucci, a tape that shows the entreons of the murder of Maurizio Gucci (grandson and heir of the fortune Gucci), perpetrated through a hitman and orderedBy his ex -wife Patrizia Reggioni.Adam Driver, with glasses and wearing impressive attire from the famous brand, transforms into the tragic character.

Rumors are already nominated for the most important awards, both for the actor and Lady Gaga.However, it is not the first time that his great talent is recognized.The 38 -year -old actor obtained nominations as best actor in 2019 thanks to Marriage Story who co -starred with Scarlett Johansson and previously with Black Klansman, in the category of Best Distributed Actor, directed by Spike Lee.And of course he was also nominated for the Emmy in the category of best cast actor, thanks to the famous television series, Girls, where he played the conflicting and magnetic boyfriend of Lena Dunham.

Although the actor gives himself totally to his roles and usually disappears in them, it is obvious that his approach - at the style of Daniel Day Lewis, Robert De Niro and El Pacino - focuses on his professional life and prefers to tell as little as possible to his personal life.

He was born on Nopepevember 19, 1983 in San Diego, California.After his parents divorced, along with his mother and stepfather, the family moved to the small city of Mishawaka, Indiana.Although he showed musical and interpretive talents at school, after graduating Adam did not continue along the artistic path, but ended up training as Marine in the Pendleton camp in California.It was several years later, when he finally managed to accept him in Juliard, one of the best US dramatic art academies.In the interim, he had contracted a girlfriend of many years, Joanne Tucker.The couple has a child.

Was it difficult for him to accept him in Juliard?

I tried twice.The first while still at school, when they didn't accept me.So, I continued my life by deciding to enter the Armed Forces.Several years later, I introduced myself to a second audition and it went well.At that time I was very naive, luckily, and I didn't realize how important it was to have this second chance.If I had noticed how difficult it was to get to Juliard, I would have felt even much more nervous than I felt.I arrived at the audition with a kind of false confidence, I felt that I was well prepared, although I did not know anything about the profession, especially having grown up in a place like Indiana (rural area of the Nopeperth American media).When I knew they had accepted me, I couldn't believe it.

If from school he liked singing and acting so much, what motivated him to enter the navy?

I was very impacted what happened in 9/11 and as at that time, in reality, I did not have a well -defined north, I decided to offer my services.I spent three years in Pendleton to the south of California, training and then fighting abroad.

Does it feel today worth it?

Totally.For me the army did not mean a waste of time, on the contrary, belonging to the body of Marines, it served as training to act (laughs).Because within the armed forces, one is also isolated with a group of young people under tremendous stress.You need to work as a team, share the triumphs, reach a goal that is larger than that of a single person.I concluded that there was a lot of Cross Over between being a marine and an actor.

How?

In both professions the important thing is the communal effort, everyone tries to reach a goal greater than that of a single person.When you are marine or actor, a leader, a commander in the army and a director in the cinema is needed.As a military, it interacts with weapons and in the cinema and TV, with the camera.

After training, did you go to combat?

Nopepe, because just before they will transfer me to a base abroad, I suffered an accident driving my mountain bike: I broke the sternum, so all my friends left less me.I stayed several months in the Pendleton camp in California from where I was finally fired with honors.

Bewill your accident was quite serious ...

I had been pedaling down when it happened.The two handles of the bicycle were buried in my chest and, as I was going alone, I had to lower the rest of the mountain with my broken sternum.The worst came when the problem worsened because, instead of taking a break, I followed my training like Marine.

Was his intention to stay in the Armed Forces?

I would probably have stayed if it weren't for that accident.With my training I learned to survive, such as eating red fruits in the forest and knowing how to use a weapon.It was that preparation that gave me enough confidence to try luck as an actor.If I was able to survive a war, why couldn't an audition survive?(laughs).

We know that it is still linked to the army through its foundation ...

His name is Aitaf (Arts in the Armed Forces), we created it in 2008 with my then girlfriend Joan Tucker (the couple has been married since 2013).Our idea was to bring musical groups, plays and films to the soldiers of the Armed Forces organizing tours of the different bases inside and outside the US.Luckily, many actors have collaborated with us like Laura Linney and Susan Sarandon.Our organization not only works as entertainment, but also has therapeutic purposes, helping families that lose their loved ones or soldiers who suffer from post traumatic syndrome.In AITAF we also address several of the problems suffered by military such as alcoholism, divorce and depression ...

They must feel very proud ...

We are because thanks to the arts, soldiers have found words to express their feelings and these words replace their aggressiveness.I noticed it in myself thanks to the performance, that changed my behavior.Luckily I trained as an actor after leaving Marines's body when, for the first time, I realized about the power of words.And then I wanted to share this experience, with my former companions.

His great start

You.became known worldwide thanks to the Girls series.How do you summarize your experience?

For me it was a great school, a show had six seasons where I felt comfortable.I knew that Lena Dunham, and the rest of the cast, were doing something new, everything was very open, with a lot of collaboration between us and the best idea, she won.It was an excellent atmosphere to work, in a certain way similar to the theater, since over time, there was the possibility of improving the character, which also happened to me when I did the six seasons of Star Wars.

Having worked in so many quality films, do you feel safe as an actor?

Nopepe.I have worked with older actors and it shows that they are very sure of what they are doing, but instead I, I still feel like a 7 -year -old boy or as a teenager trying to do it well.And this happens to me with everything I do: whether writing, acting or singing.I feel that I will never have a correct answer because for me it does not exist.I am the type of person who all the time to torture with his ideas, "I could have done it a little better, I could have saved energy in that scene and placed more effort in this other and would have improved the story".In my mind I feel that I have nothing under control.

What do you most like about your profession?

That forces us to be empathic, that you must find in oneself something that relates to the character that we will interpret with which at the beginning we feel nothing in common.Nope other work gives us three months to think about the perspective of another human being.

He has worked with several of the best directors in the world.This year in two Ridley Scott films, with Leos Carax and previously with Spike Lee, Sodebergh, Spielberg, Scorcese etc. Para You.Can the director be even more important than the script?

Yes, absolutely, because cinema is the director's field.And then why not work with the best?It was what I always wanted to do and I have been very lucky to have found myself available at the time they needed me.

What other directors would you like to work in the future?

I have a list in my mind that is quite long to list them.I will try to achieve it and, but I will take some free time.That is my only plan.I recognize that I have been very lucky with the opportunities that have been presented to me.Sometimes my characters do not make sense, but I completely trust the director, although the click is produced in half or almost at the end of the filming of the movie.I come from a small city in Indian.

Es obvio que You.He feels a great responsibility for the final product of his work ...

Nopepe tomo mi profesión como algo liviano.She is sacrificed.One is away from his family for 3 or 4 months, working 12 hours a day, totally wrapped in the dynamics of making a film with the hope that the collective effort will tell a story that will have a lasting effect on the public and that hopefully will produce achange or at least an important conversation.And for this reason, I do not take my profession lightly, nodese "embarrar" or ruin the opportunity.I always try to do my best.

Does it affect when filming ends?

Nopepe.I trained to forget them at the time they end.I try to take them out of the body and my mind as quickly as possible, not to think about them again and immediately be distracted by the next project or by something else.My favorite part is the collaboration that occurs when we are working, but when filming is over, I feel that I am no longer owned by the project, but it belongs to the director.Nor do I see the movies in which I have worked because when they premiere they have nothing to do with me.

Why?

Because I feel that my inclination would be to turn them into something different or repent about what I did in my interpretation.When the movie opens two years later, I feel totally disconnected from it.I imagine the same thing happens to writers when they write a book and read it five years later.

So, if you win a prize for one of your interpretations, you will feel that you are not totally yours?

Exactly, because the award represents a group of people who did not have the opportunity to win the prize.Sometimes there are thousands of people who make possible the creation of a movie and I am only one of them.

How do you prepare for roles so different from each other, such as scenes of a recently Annette marriage, the last duel and Gucci's house?

Although it seems a cliché response, the most important thing for me is to learn my parliaments thorough.All tapes are different from each other, so apart from knowing my lines, I do not do anything else in common in front of all.And I never try to impose my way of working on the set, on the contrary, I am very open to recognize when I am wrong.But I try to gather as much information about my character and of course, everything starts with my parliaments because I know them calm me, I can't get to the set without finding myself prepared.If I'm not, I start feeling my interpretation nervous.But, answering your question, before asking a scene I don't have a mantra or a song or vocal exercise that I always repeat. Nopepe hay nada mágico, se puede sentir mucho interpretando una escena y el público no siente nada o viceversa, yo me limito a hacerlo lo mejor posible.

Having worked at the theater, in comedias and in dramas, what genre is the most challenging and which one does he like the most?

I enjoy everyone.I think an actor is lucky to be able to work in different processes and not be attached to one place.In this way, different muscles are exercised from TV, then to the cinema and then to the theater.

Do you have many actors friends?

I am the very friend of Oscar Isaac. Nopepes conocimos en Julliard aunque no estábamos en la misma clase.And what joined us was to feel that we were both like a kind of losses losses.And that same feeling continues until today (laughs).

What profession would you have chosen if you weren't an actor or Marine?

Nopepe sé, no sé.Maybe it would have been that person who welcomes Wall Mart (laughs) customers or a firefighter.

Adam, in depth

You.is a super intense person.What relaxes it?

An interview like this (laughs) for my work and life are not very different.Relationships are created at work to relieve tension, because there is too much stress and pressure and those relationships help.In private life, my family, my wife and my son relax me, as I also relax me and I love having two coffees daily with my wife.

What can you tell us about your marriage?

Let's see ... There are many things that I like to be married.With my wife, we support ourselves reciprocally, I like having someone next to me and who tells me what he thinks of me. Nopepe es que el matrimonio sea una institución para todos, pero en mi caso, ser parte de una yunta me ayuda mucho, junto a Joan, encontré mi cable a tierra.

He has a playful side, we know he likes to joke ...

I expect it, I do not see myself as a super intense person, but it is obvious that I do not like wasting time, and I always see the possibility of making a movie like a tremendous opportunity especially if someone is investing millions of dollars in it.The actors are away from our families in a kind of cave, isolated, in order to do something that will last forever and that is when I want to give everything.

What do you appreciate the most?

Silence is very important for me, especially now with saturated culture following the multiple social networks, last -minute news, cell phones soundless, political speeches, influencers tweeting, always surrounded by people who have no patience forget bored or reflect or to hold deep conversations.In this scenario, some peace is needed and for me, it is important to find it in my life.I live in New York (Brooklyn) one of the most noisy cities in the world and I need to leave from time to time to survive it.

Play an instrument?

The piano, but I am not a concertist, much less (laughs).

What kind of music do you prefer?

Tom waits, and in classical music, Rachmaninoff.If it had been a beatle I would have liked to be George Harrison (more laughs).

Any hobby?

I like to observe the birds and when I am in New York I will see them to the central Park.

Is it religious?

Religion is not a bad and in a certain way I feel envy of people who are because they have faith and feel hope.I was raised in a religious environment, my parents were Baptists, I respect religion.But I don't like it when you go to the territory of "I am in the truth and you are wrong, so I'm going to chase you".This attitude is bad for humanity, I definitely believe in freedom of expression.